Homes - Yanko Design

House with blue ceramic tiled roof, wooden porch posts, and a gravel front yard. Large glass doors run along the front of the home with a covered porch area.

This Traditional Japanese Home Was Brought Back to Life by Opening It Up to Everything Around It

Returning home is a deeply intentional process. Not just to a place, but to a life — one shaped by memory, family, and the particular…

Architecture, Homes

Close-up of a carbon-fiber Ducati portable power unit with a red illuminated panel reading DUCATI on a workshop surface.

Ducati Barista M3 1926 gives new meaning to caffeinated motorhead passion

What’s common between thunderous sports bikes and espresso machines? Both deliver a high-adrenaline rush, right? Yes, but there’s more to it: both are precision-engineered, and…

Kitchen, Lifestyle

Dramatic black curved staircase inside a modern house, surrounded by curved metal shells and glass walls

5 Homes With No Straight Lines That Look Like Nature Designed Them

For centuries, homes have been planned as practical machines, efficient, box-like structures built to shelter and protect. Straight lines, sharp corners, and predictable layouts defined…

Architecture, Homes

Dark gray modular tiny house on a trailer with a beige front door, large window, and small wooden steps leading up to the entrance by the wheels.

Teacup Tiny Homes Built the Same Floor Plan Over and Over — Because It’s That Good

The Ruby is built by Alberta-based Teacup Tiny Homes, a builder quietly making some of the most thoughtful tiny homes in North America since 2016….

Architecture, Homes

Dark wood tiny house on a trailer with a large glass wall, parked on gravel under a blue sky in a rural setting.

This Oregon Tiny Home Has a Freestanding Bathtub and More Storage Than You’d Ever Expect

Some tiny homes ask you to settle. Cramped kitchens, awkward layouts, a bathroom you have to apologize for. The Black Butte by Spindrift Homes is…

Architecture, Homes

Tabletop charcoal grill with skewered meat and vegetables cooking outdoors, a bottle resting on the grill lid.

Forget Cheap Grilling Tools — These 8 BBQ Gadgets Are Actually Designed to Last a Decade

Most grilling gear is built for one season. The spatulas bend, the tongs lose tension, the finish chips by August, and you’re back at the…

Deals, Gadgets, Kitchen, Outdoor, Product Design, Shop

Two cube-shaped, modern buildings with large glass windows sit side by side under a blue sky, with power lines in the background and a patio umbrella in front.

Four Meters by Four Meters: How Tadao Ando Made Constraint Beautiful

Perched on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea in Tarumi-ku, Kobe, the 4×4 House by Tadao Ando occupies a narrow coastal strip that Japanese…

Architecture, Homes

Woman sits on wooden steps of a tiny house with black siding and orange trim in a fenced, mulched yard

This $35,000 Tiny Home Proves You Don’t Need More Than 161 Square Feet to Live Well

At 20 feet long and 8 feet wide, the Tulsi by Simplify Further Tiny Homes doesn’t try to be anything it isn’t. It has everything…

Architecture, Homes

Mid-century living room with a teal armchair, glass coffee table, orange vase, and a wood sideboard with an orange lamp against pastel geometric walls.

70 Years Later, Midcentury Modern Furniture Has Still Outlasted Every Single Trend That Came After It

Seventy years on, Midcentury Modern still holds the room. Few design languages have remained so instantly legible across generations, continents, and price brackets. A teak…

Editorial, Furniture, Interiors, Product Design

Teal retro-style SMEG appliance with a glossy black top on a light wood counter, greenery in the background.

10 Best Kitchen Tools and Appliances Designed to Live on Your Counter, Not in Your Cupboard

The kitchen counter is prime real estate. Most appliances waste it, sitting there looking generic and visually forgettable until they get pushed to the back…

Appliances, Deals, Kitchen, Product Design, Shop